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INSIGHT Health Data Research Hub
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We are an NHS-led initiative set up to make routinely collected eye data available for approved health research. INSIGHT is led by Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust working in partnership with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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For National Eye Health Week, we highlight the role of health data research in confronting the global epidemic of vision loss, affecting 2.2 billion people.

Discover how NHS patient data is driving research into vision loss at INSIGHT at Moorfields, led by @pearsekeane.bsky.social

bit.ly/48tdK01
Professor Pearse Keane views retinal scans on a computer screen
September 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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An AI tool can accurately predict when young people with sight-threatening #kerataconus need treatment to prevent vision loss.

Research led by @moorfields.bsky.social with INSIGHT, @ucleye.bsky.social supported by @nihr.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social

Read more 🔗http://bit.ly/46sp5L8
Heatmaps show where the AI model has identified areas of disease progression
September 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Among @royalsociety.org awards for 2025, @pearsekeane.bsky.social receives the Gabor Medal for his work at @ucleye.bsky.social, Moorfields Eye Hospital, @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social, developing AI-driven retinal image analysis for eye disease and #oculomics

Read more 🔗 bit.ly/4mDN2Gq
Pearse Keane at his desk
August 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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We have created a step-by-step guide to applying for data through INSIGHT at Moorfields Eye Hospital - the world's largest ophthalmic bio-resource of more than 30 million eye images linked to clinical records.

Find out more:🔗http://bit.ly/45tqn9F
Process diagram showing 6 steps that trace the data use enquiry process at INSIGHT
August 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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As broadcast on @itvnews.bsky.social, journalist Kevin Ashford
recently visited Moorfields Eye Hospital to report on 'AI for good'. He spoke with Shafi Balal and Josef Huemer, who work with the medical AI lab of @pearsekeane.bsky.social
@ucleye.bsky.social.

Find out more: 🔗http://bit.ly/4nTRhyu
July 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Researcher Shubhank Verma has shown that patients in areas of greater socioeconomic deprivation have retinal features suggestive of accelerated ageing.

Shubhank is at the @pearsekeane.bsky.social AI lab
@ucleye.bsky.social & Moorfields, enabled by INSIGHT.
Read about this & more: bit.ly/4kkt01Z
July 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Dressed in style for #Red4Research Day, our colleague @crosbynwaobi.bsky.social, together with team members, launched a video campaign to boost research participation, funded by @nihr.bsky.social. The event was hosted by @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social

Watch the videos: www.youtube.com/@NIHRMBRCPPI...
Group photo of five presenters at the launch of a new video series. They each wear a red sash in celebration of Red 4 Research Day
June 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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A new study led by Moorfields Eye Hospital and
@ucleye.bsky.social has flagged evidence gaps for AI eye imaging devices approved for patient care.

- 1 in 5 tools had no peer-reviewed data
- Very few tested in real-world settings
- Gaps in age, gender & ethnicity reporting

🔗https://bit.ly/3FDs1LS
Clinician takes OCT image of person's eye
June 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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A new frontier in #Oculomics, retinal imaging data is being used to explore detection and management of bowel diseases.

Meet Oscar Earle and Rohan Misra, who are investigating these links in Pearse Keane's medical AI lab at @ucleye.bsky.social and Moorfields Eye Hospital.

🔗 bit.ly/4kkt01Z
June 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Our #DataSavesSight pop-up at Moorfields Eye Hospital
was a fantastic opportunity to meet patients, staff and members of the public.

We shared how routinely collected eye data is anonymised, curated and made accessible for world-leading research.

Find out more: 🔗 bit.ly/48IdvuH
Pearse Keane stands chatting with three visitors at the entrance to the exhibition space in Moorfields Eye Hospital main corridor Three people - visitors and the INSIGHT team - smile to the camera during the pop-up event, against the white walls of the exhibition space at Moorfields Eye Hospital Tara Lee from the Open Data Institute and INSIGHT's Data Trust Advisory Board stands beside the INSIGHT banner at the entrance to the exhibition space at Moorfields Eye Hospital
May 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Meet Siegfried Wagner, who co-founded the field of #oculomics - using data & AI to unlock the eye as a window to human health.

On Thurs 22 May, Siegfried will be at our pop-up event at Moorfields City Rd from 1pm - 2pm.

🔗https://bit.ly/42R7j3V

@ucleye.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Did you know that INSIGHT at Moorfields Eye Hospital has a Secure Research Environment (SRE)?

What is it?
A computing environment for researchers to access anonymised datasets. No data leaves the SRE; only the final analysis can be exported.

Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/3G9tOIa
#DataSavesSight
April 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Emerging and future technologies for tackling sight loss were presented at the @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social symposium yesterday, from gene therapy to the data and AI-enabled discovery enabled by INSIGHT to novel devices unlocking new discoveries. The research spans @ucleye.bsky.social and Moorfields.
A montage of three images taken in the lecture hall at NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre. At top: Professor Marinko Saurinic wears a grey suit and stands at the lectern mid-speech. To his left on a large presentation screen is a slide depicting the science of Oculomics. In the image at bottom left is a slide showing the scale of data curated by the INSIGHT health data research hub led by Moorfields Eye Hospital: more than 35 million eye images and more than 2.4 million patients are represented in the data. In the image at bottom right, four people stand against a wood panelled wall, smiling to the camera, from left: Aadil Kazi, Sir Peng Khaw, Alex Black, Helen Khan
April 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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INSIGHT is committed to ensuring transparency in how patient data is collected and curated for medical research.

Our messaging is live on patient display screens across
Moorfields Eye Hospital sites, with new screens just added.

Find out more: bit.ly/datasavessight
#DataSavesSight
March 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Find out how @pearsekeane.bsky.social and his inter-disciplinary group of clinical researchers and data scientists are transforming our understanding of the link between the eyes and brain. @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social #UCLBrainSciences
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Photo portrait of Pearse Keane in bottom left, with large type quote that says" "For more than 100 years, doctors have known that the eyes can be used as a window to the rest of the body. Now, thanks to the power of AI and big data, we can find information hidden within retinal images and use this information to pick up early signs of neurodegenerative diseases."
March 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The science of #Oculomics is leveraging the potential of retinal images, routinely collected during patient appointments, for monitoring brain health. #BrainAwarenessWeek

Discover the work led by @sktywagner.bsky.social at @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social with INSIGHT: bit.ly/oculomic
March 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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As the world's largest bioresource of ophthalmic images linked to patient data, INSIGHT at Moorfields Eye Hospital is enabling research into many eye and systemic conditions.

See our Wet AMD dashboard for a breakdown of curated, anonymised data for over 13,400 patients.

🔗 bit.ly/eye-data
Infographic showing the breakdown of AMD data hosted by INSIGHT at Moorfields Eye Hospital. The infographic inludes: number of injections per drug, patient cohort by age, image type, postcode distribution and patient ethnicity where known.
February 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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We are adding dashboards to our data catalogue, providing detail of condition-specific datasets - our anonymised #cataract data, for example, from more than 130,000 patients.

INSIGHT is an NHS-led initiative & the world's largest #ophthalmology bioresource

Find out more: 🔗https://bit.ly/eye-data
Infographic showing data breakdown for cataract patients by ethnicity, age and location
February 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Representing more than 200,000 patients, our anonymised #glaucoma data is available to approved researchers to develop new therapies and care. 🔗https://bit.ly/eye-data

INSIGHT is an NHS-led initiative & the world's largest #ophthalmology bioresource. #GlaucomaAwarenessMonth
Bar graph showing number of patients by condition represented within the INSIGHT health data research hub. There are approximately 205,000 patients with glaucoma
January 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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A study in @europeanradiology.bsky.social demonstrates the potential of ChatGPT to identify progression of multiple sclerosis in brain MRIs.

Led by @brenkelly.bsky.social with co-authors including pearsekeane.bsky.social of ucleye.bsky.social and
moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social

🔗https://bit.ly/4gb2VQu
Infographic describing the key points from the paper, with small MRI images labelled on an identification scale from cautious to true positive
January 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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We have updated our dashboard with more granular detail of the NHS eye data we are making accessible to approved researchers.

An NHS-led initiative, INSIGHT is the world's largest bio-resource of ophthalmic images linked to clinical data.
#oculomics #DataSavesSight #medicalAI

🔗 bit.ly/eye-data
Infographic depicting an overview of the eye health data resources held by INSIGHT
January 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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50 years ago, the first #NHS Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement #PPIE initiative was introduced. Building on this legacy, we launched our Data Saves Sight campaign at Moorfields Eye Hospital earlier in the year.

Read our review, including top PPIE takeaways 🔗https://bit.ly/3VQq3wt
Pearse Keane stands beside two patients, smiling to camera. The INSIGHT banner is behind them. Data Saves Sight presentation slide on a large projector screen, with people seated in the foreground Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi stands beside Subhash Suthar and Alex Black, smiling to camera, against the backdrop of Neasden Temple community centre at Croydon, London
December 23, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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#Oculomics is the science of using the eye as a window to health, using high-res eye imaging data and #medicalAI.

Watch our video to discover how INSIGHT is enabling Oculomics research at Moorfields, @uclofficial.bsky.social, @unibirmingham.bsky.social & beyond.

🔗 Full version: bit.ly/oculomics
December 6, 2024 at 3:04 PM